Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) is a hybrid framework focused on people, goals, and continuous learning throughout the delivery lifecycle. It offers a flexible decision framework that adapts proven strategies for tailored adoption, emphasizes enterprise awareness, and supports the collaboration of various roles including team leads and stakeholders. DAD promotes scalability for large, distributed teams while ensuring a risk-value-driven approach to agile processes.

1. DISCIPLINED AGILE
DELIVERY
Presenter:
Swarn Singhvi

2. The key characteristics of DAD:
• People-first
• Goal-driven
• Hybrid agile
• Learning-oriented
• Full delivery lifecycle
• Solution focused
• Risk-value lifecycle
• Enterprise aware
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Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)- Process
Decision Framework

3. Scrum
Extreme
Programming
LeanKanban
DAD is a Hybrid Framework
Unified Process Agile Modeling
Agile Data“Traditional”Outside In Dev.
DevOps …and more
DAD leverages proven strategies from several sources,
providing a decision framework to guide your adoption and
tailoring of them in a context-driven manner.
SAFe

4. A High Level Lifecycle

5. Disciplined Agile Delivery: Basic Lifecycle
…so there’s a fair bit to the agile delivery lifecycle.

6. Disciplined Agile Delivery: Lean Lifecycle
DAD doesn’t prescribe a single lifecycle…

7. The Phases Disappear Over Time
First release: Inception Construction Transition
Second release: I Construction T
Third release: I Construction T
Nth+ releases: C CT C C TT T
.
.
.
…and promotes continuous learning and
improvement.

8. DAD: Lean Continuous Delivery Lifecycle
A good
end goal

9. DAD Exploratory “Lean Startup” Lifecycle
© Disciplined Agile Consortium
Sometimes it takes time to identify what your
stakeholders actually need

10. DAD supports a robust set of roles
• Team Lead
• Agile process expert, keeps team focused on achievement
of goals, removes impediments
• Product Owner
• Owns the product vision, scope and priorities of the
solution
• Architecture Owner
• Owns the architecture decisions and technical priorities,
mitigates key technical risks
• Team Member
• Cross-functional team members that deliver the solution
• Stakeholder
• Includes the customer but also other stakeholders such as
Project Sponsor, DevOps, architecture, database groups,
governance bodies
© Disciplined Agile Consortium

11. DAD Teams Are Enterprise Aware
Disciplined agilists:
• Work closely with
enterprise groups
• Follow existing
roadmap(s) where
appropriate
• Leverage existing assets
• Enhance existing assets

12. Context Counts – Tailoring and Scaling Agile
Agile
Disciplined
Agile
Delivery
Agility
at Scale
 Construction focus
 Value driven lifecycle
 Self-organizing teams
 Prescriptive
 Project team aware
 Delivery focus
 Risk-value driven lifecycle
 Self-organization with appropriate governance
 Goal driven
 Enterprise aware
DAD provides the foundation from which to scale:
 Large teams
 Geographically distributed teams
 Compliance
 Domain complexity
 Technical complexity
 Organizational distribution

13. THANK YOU
SWARNSINGHVI
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